GREEN CERTIFICATION
Dr Lalith Senaweera
Director General/CEO
Sri Lanka Standards Institution
WHY GREEN-Global Issues, Local
Opportunity
• Climate change
Natural
resource
depletion
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Water
pollution
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By 2035, 75% of
buildings will be new
► Human health
or renovated
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Water scarcity
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Ecological
degradation
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Energy security
Green Building : Why?
Development and Water
Consumption
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Global
• 1900-2000: consumption rate doubled that of population
• 2025: 2/3 population in “water stressed” conditions
Green Building : Why?
Development and Natural Resources
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Global
• Buildings account for 40% of raw material use
• C&D waste is 20% of world waste stream
• 2.8 pounds / person / day
• 1998-2002: Number of landfills dropped by 77%
Green Building : Why?
Buildings and Energy
• Energy
• Buildings account for ½ of total
energy consumption
Green Building : Why?
Buildings and Climate Change
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Business as usual
• 2 C rise by 2050
• 3 C rise by 2100
1’ rise = 100’ in coastal flooding
Green Building : Why?
Sea-level rise projections : a few inches
to a few feet
•2 ft: U.S. would lose 10,000 square miles
•Affects erosion, loss of wetlands, freshwater
supplies
•Half of the world’s population lives along
coasts
•Big question: Ice sheets
Development and Wetlands
–Global
•1900-2000: ½ of
wetlands lost
•$3.4 billion value
Green Building : Why?
HUMAN HEALTH ABOUT
LIVING INDOOR
• Do we know that –
– Most of us spend about 90% of our time in indoors
– Many building product contain Chemicals commonly known
as Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) that emit harmful
vapours over time
– In a short time these vapours effect health – running nose,
tears from the eyes and throat irritation are typical
symptoms.
– Over time, indoor chemical vapours from building materials
may seriously impact reproductive health, increase the risk
of cancer and contribute to respiratory illness like asthma
– Children and elders are more vulnerable to building material
toxicity and indoor air pollution
Buildings and Human Health
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Indoor Air Quality
• Pollutant levels can be 10-100 times outdoors
• 2007 Study: 9 out of 10 homes have poor IAQ
– particle allergens
– chemical pollutant,
– CO2
– temperature
– humidity
– carbon monoxide
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Costs
• $30 billion/year in health care costs
• $100 billion in sick leave and productivity
Green Building : Why?
Fundamentals
• Humans need protection from
elements
• Human population is growing
• Built environment is increasing
Green Building : Why
Year
World
Population
(billions)
2010
6.8
2020
7.6
2030
8.3
2040
8.9
2050
9.4
Source: US Census Bureau
Overview
Think Green
How can an environmentally
conscious business use their
community and social concern
to create a competitive advantage
for themselves while encouraging
others to do their part in saving
the planet for future generations?
Objectives
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Enhance your image in the community
Improve your reputation with current customers
Attract new customers
Reduce operational cost
Better employee relations
Increased free publicity for green products
Differentiating your business from your
competitors
• Demonstrate to the world you are an
environmentally aware company
What is sustainability
• A strategy by which communities
seek
economic
development
approaches that also benefit the
local environment and quality of
life..
Is a process of achieving
human development
Contributed through effective
management of social ,economic
and environment benefits
Global Drivers of Sustainability
• Increasing Industrialization
• Proliferation & Interconnection of Civil
Stakeholders
• Emerging Technology
• Effects of Globalization- poverty, inequity,
population explosion
Triple Bottom Line
TBL“ or "3BL",
What is TBL
• An expanded spectrum of values and criteria
for measuring organizational and societal
success – economic, environmental, social.
• In the private sector, a commitment to CSR
implies a commitment to some form of TBL
reporting.
The Triple Bottom Line is made up of
"Social, Economic and
Environmental"
"People, Planet, Profit "
Triple Bottom Line Accounting
• Expanding the traditional reporting
framework
• Take into account environmental and
social performance in addition to financial
performance.
• Company's responsibility to 'stakeholders'
rather than shareholders.
GLOBAL REPORTING INITIATIVE
GRI
􀂉 The Global Reporting Initiative attempts to make the
Triple Bottom Line operational
􀂉 VISION
The Global Reporting Initiative’s (GRI) vision is that
reporting on economic, environmental, and social
performance by all organizations becomes as routine
and comparable as financial reporting. GRI
accomplishes this vision by developing, continually
improving, and building capacity around the use of
its Sustainability Reporting Framework.
Sustainability
Categorizing Sustainability Indicators
Categories are based on:
• TBL
• Relationship between the
daily practices and
sustainability
• Strength of this relationship
Ex: In the UN CSD, “proportion of
urban population living in slums”
addresses this relationship directly
through poverty, whereas this
relationship is also addressed indirectly
through health, governance or land.
• Characteristics of the
building industry
TRENDS & CHALLENGES
• CHANGING BUSINESS
ENVIRONMENT
Environmental Concerns
• Will CLEAN air & water continue to be
available ?
• Will food be from polluted source ?
• Will flora & fauna continue to exist ?
• Will there be more flooding ?
• Will there be more new diseases ?
• Will the temperature of the environment be
rising ?
How are WE positioned in this
“Storm” ?
Can the Human Race do
Something ?
YES !
THEY CAN
Green the Supply Chain
• ONE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION
• IS
• TO GO FOR GREEN
Green Building: How?
Background
• The drive to “go green” is undoubtedly welcome
as the problems of water shortage, energy crisis
and climate change are seemingly here to stay.
• Also the green concept has to be developed for
local context so that they can be still be applied
within the local and financial needs.
Green Building
Green buildings have less negative impact
on the environment than standard buildings.
Their construction minimizes on-site
grading, saves natural resources by using
alternative building materials, and recycling
construction waste rather than sending truck
after truck to landfills.
WORLD ACCEPTABLE
STANDARDS
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LEED CERTIFICATION - USA
BREEAM CERTIFICATION- UK
CASBEE CERTIFICATION- JAPAN
GREEN GLOBE -USA
GREEN STAR - AUSTRALIA
GREEN RATING SYSTEM- SRI
LANKA
Green Globes
California
Green
Building
Code
Current green building
certification
systems
BREEAM U.K.
BREEAM Europe & International
CASBEE
(Japan)
DGNB
LEED
LEED,
BREEAM Gulf
Green Star
Requirements for Green Building Certification
Designing According to the Triple Bottom
Line:
• economic performance,
• contribution to employment,
• protection of biodiversity,
• labor processes,
• security,
• public health,
• access to energy,
• access to clean water,
• education
• cultural preservation
Assessing Ssustainability
Types of Assessment
Three common methods of assessment :
1.End-user impact assessment
2.Lifecycle assessment
3.Lifestyle assessment
End-user impact
• Calculation of negative externalities
created by the direct actions of the
end users
• Externalities (carbon footprint,
hazardous gas emissions, waste
production, etc.) are calculated by
looking at the consumption
processes of goods and services.
Lifecycle
• Introduced during the UN Earth Summit in Rio
in 1992
• Production, transportation and consumption
process of products and services
• Ex: Evaluating buildings’ CO2 emission requires
calculation of CO2 emission that has been created
throughout the excavation, production and transportation of
the building materials, as well as the CO2 produced by
direct use of energy in the building.
Future lifestyle:
• Preserving today’s consumption
oriented, individualistic vision
• Curbing the externalities of people’s
unlimited desires by technological
advances
What Can You Do??
•Science and Technology
•Life science
•Nanotechnology
•Renewable energy
•Biofuels
•ICT
•Clean Tech Start-Ups
•$4 billion in VC in ‘06
Tomorrow
Internal
•Energy conservation
•Environmental management
•Facility management
•Operations management
•Consulting
•Toxic use reduction
•Waste reduction
•Emission reduction
•Microfinance
•Social venturing
•Rural development
•NGOs
•Grameen Foundation
•CARE
•Development banks
•Corporate BOP initiatives
External
•Green building
•Sustainable design
•New product development
•Remanufacturing
•Recycling
•Negotiation
•Stakeholder Dialogue
Today
The Sustainable Value Portfolio
Clean Technology
Tomorrow
•develop new competencies
•pursue leapfrog innovation
Base of the Pyramid
•meet unmet needs
•raise the base of the pyramid
Internal
External
Pollution Prevention
•minimize process waste
•enhance resource productivity
Product Stewardship
•lower product life cycle impact
•increase transparency/accountability
Today
Ten major areas in Green
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Solid Waste Reduction
Recycle or Reuse Materials
Reduced Office Waste
Purchase Used or Recycled Content
Energy Savings
Water Conservation
Pollution Prevention
Chemical Reduction
Potential Pollutants
Reduce Vehicle Emissions
Environmentally Friendly Purchasing
GREEN CERTIFICATION
“You cannot talk about
Green unless you love your
people and your country”
SLSI Role
• SLSI implements number of
certification schemes to facilitate
the Greening of Supply Chain.
ISO 14000 series
ISO 14001
EMS Requirements
ISO 14004
EMS Guidelines and
support techniques
ISO 19011
Guidance on auditing
of EMS & QMS
ISO 14000 series
ISO 14067
ISO DIS 14046
ISO 19011
Carbon foot print
Water Foot Print
Guidance on auditing
of EMS & QMS
ISO 50000 series
ISO 50001
ISO 19011
Energy Management Requirements
Guidance on auditing
of EMS & QMS
Energy Labelling Scheme
Energy Efficiency Labelling For
CFLs
SLS 1225
Star rating certification Scheme
Thank you!